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Daniel J. Flynn

Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004). In 2025, he releases his magnum opus, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. He splits time between city Massachusetts and cabin Vermont.

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NFL Loses 10 Percent of TV Audience

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 5, 2018

The National Football League dropped almost 10 percent in the ratings during the 2017 regular season. Games averaged 14.9 million…

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Boston Mayor: ‘Global Warming’ Responsible for Blizzard’s Destruction

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 5, 2018

On a day in which Boston got walloped with 13.5 inches of snow, Mayor Marty Walsh fingered a familiar suspect…

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Mother Nature’s Harsh Global Warming Rebuttal

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 4, 2018

WORCESTER, Mass. A blizzard boasting blistering winds blitzed the Eastern seaboard this week with snow falling from Florida to Maine…

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Report: FBI Cleared Clinton Long Before Ending Investigation

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 3, 2018

The Hill reports that the FBI believed Hillary Clinton and her aides broke laws despite the bureau director’s stated conclusion…

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Remember When Press Said Trump Victory Meant Stock Market Collapse?

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 2, 2018

After insisting that Donald Trump could not win the presidency, scribe-soothsayers predicted a collapse of the Dow if he did….

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2017, the Worst Year Ever Until 2018

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 29, 2017

Twenty seventeen passes as a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad year for caring mentors passionate about administering shoulder rubs to…

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CVS and Amazon, Not Politicians, Best Bets to Reform Healthcare

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 28, 2017

Congress botched attempts to rein-in out-of-control health care costs in 2017. Where government failed, the private sector made initial baby…

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U.S. Life Expectancy Declines After Obama’s Hope Turns to Opioid Despair

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 22, 2017

For the first time in more than a half century, life expectancy declined for two consecutive years in the United…

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FBI-Gate: Deep State in Deep Spit

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 15, 2017

Call me a sentimentalist, but I liked the days when FBI agents went undercover as subversives better than today when…

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Ma’am, Can I Be Brutally Franken With You?

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 8, 2017

If only Al Franken had left a woman to die in an air pocket in his submerged Oldsmobile instead of…